OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14456081
LOTI INC DRYWALL DIV OF ELIAS MORRIS & SONS CO
NORTH SALT LAKE, UT—
Event description
Employee injured in 17 ft fall from wooden plank
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing a suspended ceiling from a 2 in. by 12 in. wooden pla the conduit, was the only part of the south wall where the work plank was not o ver equipment. nk that was resting on a purlin and several pipes. As he reached for some hanger wires that a coworker on the floor was handing to him, the unsecured plank tipp ed and Employee #1 fell 17 ft to the concrete floor. The employees had been able to use a Hunter scissor lift, #107, for the largest part of the job, which was in the lamps testing area at Sperry, but there was some fixed equipment along th e south wall where the 55 in. wide lift could not fit. There, the employees had to work from planks that were generally set 5 to 6 ft above the equipment. The a rea where Employee #1 fell, a section measuring 3 ft 6 in. between the pipes and
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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